The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-25
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


SENATE-Bills were introduced on the 18th:
To repeal the law providing for farmer instr
tutes; for the distribution of 5000 worth Of
approved seeds among premium takers at
eounty fairs; permitting citizens of a village to
vote the dissolution of that village as such; to
permit villages and cities to hold spring cleo
tions in March instead of April.
ASSEMBLY-Bills were introduced: Providing
that precincts in cities of fifty thousand in
habitants and over shall not contain more than
five hundred voters; providing for a uniform
system OF government for all villages and cit
les; to give bounty of five cents per rod for
all legal wire fence maintained along high
ways; providing that Justices of the Wisconsin
Supreme Court may retire on half pay-S2, 500
on reaching the age of seventy years, if they
have served ten years consecutively; providing
for the biennial appointment of State
Mine Inspector, at an annual salary
of $3.50; requiring that suit for recoE-
cry of lands sold for taxes shall be commenced
within one year after sales. Bills were passed:
Permitting complaints of violation of the COM
pulsory education law to be made to justice
of the peace instead of to the school director;
making first grade teachers certificates good
for four years, second grade for two years and
third grade one year; exempting from levy the
earnings to the amount of $50 of all persons who
have to provide for the entire support of
family
SBNATE--Bills were passed on the 18th: Max
ing the President of the State University a
member of the Board of Regents and of the
Executive Board of that body; providing that
no county seat of fifteen years standing shall
be changed unless vote on the question be
called for by one-half the freeholders of the
county. The joint resolution asking the coop
GRAFTON of all Governors in calling congress to
discuss convict labor was passed.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS were intrOduead. m f1rOz
vide State and local boards of arbitration to
which grievances between employers and en-
ployeS shall be Submitted, the decision of the
State board being final and binding on all
parties; to prevent boycotts and punish with
imprisonment or fine persons for combining for
the purpose of injuring another in business or
reputation or to compel another to do a thing
against his will or to prevent him from doing
lawful act; TO prevent the collection of a
sum of money greater than the loan and
ten per cent. interest year there
on on all loans secured by chattel mortgage or
bills of sale; to punish persons issuing bank
checks who have no deposits to meet the same;
to provide for the organization of mining CON-
panies in the State; to repeal the law allowing
municipal corporations to subscribe for stock
in railroads; to provide for the erection of a
State school for feeble-minded children; to au-
thorlze the Supreme Court to appoint three
Commissioners, who shall prepare a uniform
charter for all cities and report it to the Legis
lature of 1885,
SENATE-A bill was introduced on the 18th
providing that the following per cent. of gifts,
legacies and inheritances in certain cases
shall go to the State Sums above $500 to IS, 900,
per cent. from S., coo to $4,000, 10 per cent.
from $4,000 to $4,000, Is per cent, and so on.
Other bills were introduced providing that
counties shall be entitled to retain their part Of
the general one-mill School-taX, instead Of
sending it to the State Treasurer; authorizing
each circuit judge to appoint four court COM
missioners in each county containing over
$4,000 inhabitants; to authorize the Governor
to prosecute and settle claims of the State
against the United States. A bill was passed
approprating $1,000 for a monument at Gettys-
burg for Wisconsin soldiers.
ASSEMBLY-Bills were Introduced: To provide
for State board which shall license physi-
clans to practice medicine; to prevent the es-
Establishment of opium jointS;'' to regulate
the practice of veterinary surgery and medi-
cine: to create two new judicial circuits in
Northern Wisconsin; requiring election in
spectors to make an immediate return of
election to the county clerk without giving
them seven days in which to do it; requiring
the service of summons to be made exclusively
by the sheriff or his deputies; providing for the
election instead of the appointment of State
Labor Commissioners. The bill repeating the
emil school-taX was indefinitely postponed.
SENATE-Bills were introduced on the 18th
providing for the purchase of State fair grounds
in Milwaukee for 100000; permitting capital
punishment for murder; giving militia men 50
per day during service; appropriating $4,000
for improving the Milwaukee County In
sane Asylum; empowering a widow to ap-
point guardian of her children, in case
her husband had not done so; appro-
priating $1,000 annually to the Wom-
ans Relief Corps of Wisconsin, to be
distributed for charitable purposes among fam
lilies of dependent soldiers; to provide punish
ment for the taking of cranberries in any I'M
lawful manner; providing for taxing foreign
fire insurance companies; to appropriate to the
Wisconsin Veterans Home as soon as COM
pleted the sum of three dollars per week for
each inmate.
ASSEMBLY-Bills were introduced: To pre-
scribe capital punishment for murder; to require
owners of Pullman cars to take out a license to
run their cars in the State to appropriate $40 900
to George Wilson, who was wrongly imprisoned
twenty years for murder to make seven per
cent the highest rate of legal interest in the
State to appropriate $4,000 as preventative
fund against the introduction of Asiatic
cholera; to prohibit gambling and
games of chance in saloons; to in
crease the number of University Regents
from eleven to fourteen to require that in
$1,000 be paid the district-attorney; to prevent
druggists from selling liquors except on pre-
scriptions of physicians in case of actual sick
ness; to provide for a State Bank Examiner at
a salary of So, 600 year and $1,000 contingent
fund; to appropriate $4,000 to be divided among
the widows of those killed and among
those injured by the fall of the Can
itol in 1888; to require that all railway
companies in the State use automatic or
other safety couplers; to require registra-
ton every year cities of 200 and over, cleo
ton precincts not to contain over 500 voters
and a separate ballot-box for each class of Of
ficers to be voted for. Bills were passed re-
qIliring more thorough destruction of noxious
weeds and imposing heavy penalty for keep
ing or frequenttng houses of ill-fame. The Sen
ate bill appropriating $4,000 to the State Com
mission OF Fisheries for each of the years 1887
and 1888 was concurred in.
SENATE-A joint resolution was introduced
on The 21st for inviting people to vote next
year whether they will hold State con-
vention for amending the constitution. The
most important bill was for the punishment of
all boards having in charge the erection of State
buildings who go beyond the appropriations
ASsEMBLY-Bills were introduced: To en-
ploy convicts in the State prison in printing
uniform series of school textbooks for sale to
children at one-half the present retail rate; to
prevent gambling in stock and grain; to pre-
vent interference by strikers with those who
choose labor and with the operation of macbin-
cry; providing for local boards of arbitration
and Cancellation; for the appointment of State
game and fish wardens; to prevent railroad dis
elimination between shippers; creating the
Office of State dairy and food commissioners;
for the establishment of a State immigration
commissioner in New York to warn State of
ficers of the landing Of paupers criminals
destined for Wisconsin, and to give correct In
formation concerning the resources of the State
to desirable immigrants making the Office Of
Commissioner Of Labor Statistics elective
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